Bug 106738
| Summary: | /etc/wvdial.conf is created world readable | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Warren Lewis <warren98103> |
| Component: | redhat-config-network | Assignee: | Harald Hoyer <harald> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | bradley.g.smith |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-10-14 09:18:02 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Looks like this is also in Redhat 9, see bug 88856 it's filed on wvdial package (which doesn't write the config file I think) and with normal/normal severity, it probably should be moved to redhat-config-network with security/high |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 Epiphany/1.0 Description of problem: When you create a ppp connection with redhat-config-network it creates /etc/wvdial.conf with the ppp account info in it including the password in clear text. the mode is set to group/world readable! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): redhat-config-network-1.3.6-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. rm /etc/wvdial.conf if it exists 2. run redhat-config-network 3. create a ppp connection 4. ls -l /etc/wvdial.conf (note all have read permissions) 5. more /etc/wvdial.conf (note ppp account password readable) Actual Results: world readable /etc/wvdial.conf with plain text password in it. Expected Results: readable only by root /etc/wvdial.conf Additional info: